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The aspects that I think bothered me the most was the seeming mistrust that people were developing for doctors, the calling into question what was an objective medical fact and what were reasonable protocols in the face of an unknown threat.

“They speak to the ability to keep strength,” Gordon said, “in the face of catastrophe.”

"We were asking for nationalisation to be considered until we were blue in the face," Fletcher, who also represents south-west Wales, told BBC Radio Wales Drive.

So was it a strategic retreat in the face of unexpected resistance, or yet another example of Trump's "art of the deal" negotiating strategy at work?

Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, pushed back against questions from the media over the president backing down in the face of market pressures, as well as assessments from the country’s major banking institutions, such as JP Morgan Chase and Goldman Sachs, that his new trade policy would push the country into recession.